Identity links and mentions

An Identity Link connects a GitHub username to a Slack user. Mentions in living PR cards and threads — a requested reviewer, or the author when changes are requested — only ping a real person when that GitHub login has a link.

A GitHub login with no link yet still works everywhere else in Angada — it just renders as plain text instead of a ping until it's linked.

Steps

1. Open Identity Links. Angada auto-matches GitHub logins to Slack users by profile email whenever you select Auto-match — matched pairs appear in the table right away, marked as an auto link.
2. Review the table: each row shows a GitHub login, its linked Slack user (if any), and whether the link is auto or manual.
3. To link a GitHub username manually, use the link form: enter the GitHub login and the person's Slack user ID (found in their Slack profile), then confirm. To change an existing link, unlink it first, then add the correct one manually.

When a mention won't ping

Two things can stop a mention from pinging:

• No Identity Link exists yet for that GitHub login — the mention renders as plain GitHub-username text instead of a Slack ping, until it's linked.
• The channel has mentions turned off — some channels are set up as visibility-only (a firehose channel, for example), where the full living PR card still posts but without any @mention, even for logins that do have a link.